So I've now been here over 6 years! It's kinda crazy to think back to what my work was like back then.
I've gone from failing the portfolio to get into my desired college program 4 times, to deviantart MN@, to signing up to go to italy for the summer thinking I'll never get into this program, to getting my acceptance a month before I leave, to struggling to not be the worst in the class, to getting decent marks, landing an internship at Nickelodeon Magazine, to president of the student council for my program, to graduation, to people paying me to draw pretty pictures.

It's been a pretty crazy journey and thankfully it isn't over yet!
I've met a ton of awesome people here on deviantart and in the illustration/comic world. And meeting fans, artists, and other people in general has really been the best part of all this. If you're reading this then chances are I owe you a debt of thanks! You guys have all been a great help!

Here is to still hanging around dA 6 years from now.

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ps. my website is up if you haven't seen it yet [link]

I'm about a day away from my 50k pageviews.
If you capture it let me know and I'll do up a pretty picture for you!

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ps. my website is up if you haven't seen it yet [link]

So I suck at making journal posts here since I've been updating my livejournal.
It's been exactly a year since my last journal. I know this cause the last one was a birthday post and it's my birthday again.
This april I graduate. I plan to do a full on overhaul of all my online sources. Rework some old pieces, clean up my gallery, etc.
Till then I probably won't do much journal posting. Some new art certainly so keep an eye out for those!

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ps. my website is up if you haven't seen it yet [link]

Current Quote:
"If I understood what was going on it wouldn't be HALF as fun!"



It's my birthday today!
In an attempt to steal some of my gifts it appears the easter bunny and jesus have conspired to move easter early this year. Needless to say I will be keeping an eye out around my presents for any large bunnies or men in robes today.

For those interested in numbers, I'm 26

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ps. my website is up if you haven't seen it yet [link]

Current Quote:
"If I understood what was going on it wouldn't be HALF as fun!"



So I've been sitting on this information for a while now, afraid that if I said anything out loud that the earth might open up and swallow me whole. But as all my forms have been signed, and no one has mentioned it wouldn't be ok for me to talk about it, I think it's ok for me to say now.

This summer my illustration program has a co-op (internship) that we each had to find a position for. And I was able to secure a position at Nick (Nickelodeon) Magazine in New York. This is a pretty huge for me, not only is Nick Magazine an amazing opportunity as they are my ideal place to work at, but also this means moving to New York City with my insanely talented girlfriend *piratecore for the summer. I'm going to be spending as much time as I can at Nick but since the talks with the Manging Editor seem to be leading me to believe I'll only be in 3 days a week I want to try to maximize my time when not at Nick with talking to some galleries/companies/illustrators while I'm down there. My hope is to show some galleries my work in hopes of opening up some doors for possible shows. Talk to some companies about possible work either now or in the future. And also talk to some professional illustrators about what it's like to be an illustrator in New York, or just some general tips.

If anyone here is from the New York area and knows of some good illustration/artist spots then any information would be greatly appreciated. Any illustrators looking to help give some tips in exchange for coffee or a meet up then that would be appreciated too. Also anyone willing to offer some "how to survive in New York City" tips so I can survive my co-op would be great in my books.

Anyways, that's the big news for now. On a smaller note, I was elected President of my college program's illustration committee yesterday. This means co-ordinating things like fund raising and organizing the end of the year show. I take it as a huge compliment that the people in my program nominated/voted for me and I hope we can have a kick ass show.

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ps. my website is up if you haven't seen it yet [link]